After yesterday we are ready to be done traveling, but we aren’t done yet. Today was another long day on the road, although it was on much better roads this time.
This road is much better than the ones we were on yesterday.
We started off the day with a three hour seminar in Tanga for the men of this region. We had over 20 men in attendance, many of whom serve congregations in the mountains we were in yesterday. We were supposed to begin at 8:00am because we needed to get on the road, but most of the men did not arrive until a little after 9:00am. Since many of the men came out of the Anglican church, we decided to begin with a study on the Sacraments of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. We ended up using the entire time for the study and the questions that followed and concluded at about 11:30am. Some greetings followed, and then we closed our session and ate a quick lunch so we could get on the road for Moshi. We were all more than a little disappointed that we had such little time in teaching and such a long time in the car. So mentioned to the leaders and all the pastors that in the future we want to make sure that time is given to teaching as a first priority. That is the single most valuable use of our time and energy here and we want to make use of it as much as possible.
Todd adresses the men assembled for the conference after our study.
From there we left to climb back into the Pastor Jeremiah’s car for the six hour drive back to Moshi. Pastor Gondwe joined us on the trip so that we could save extra transport costs for him to the conference in Nairobi, but that made it a bit tight again in the back seat of the car. Todd and I were both just a bit stiff and sore and were glad for any and every opportunity to get out and stretch. We finally arrived back in Moshi at about 7:00pm. Jeremiah dropped Todd, Mike and I off at our hotel in Moshi where Russ and Stephen had spent the last four days. We said good-bye to Pastor Jeremiah and Pastor Gondwe who were continuing on to Arusha. We will see them in Nairobi on Thursday for the East African Pastoral Conference.
The men of the conference gathered for a picture after our meeting.
As we waited for our supper to arrive, the five of us swapped stories from the past few days. Tomorrow we have to meet with the Himo men who are being taken to court by Pastor Angowi. We will also make an appearance before the judge to testify to the CLC’s ownership of the seminary building and property. Once again we pray for the Lord’s blessings on our work and service in His kingdom and to the glory of His name.
In His service,
Nathanael
“And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.” – 2 Timothy 2:2
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